Category: PowerShell

There are various ways you can access Powershell cmdlets and here are few I know about: Launching the PS cmdlet with path from snap-in: PS C:> get-command get-date | format-table -property commandtype, name, pssnapin, module -auto CommandType  Name       pssnapin                       Module ———–  —-       ——–                       ——      Cmdlet  Get-Date   Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility PS C:> Microsoft.PowerShell.Utilityget-date Wednesday, March 09, 2011 7:43:09 PM PS C:> .

How to check a given PS cmdlet belongs to what and where it’s located? …here are few simple PS commands that helps you with this. [7]: get-command invoke-item, get-date | format-table -property commandtype, name, pssnapin, module -auto CommandType Name        PSSnapIn                        Module ———– —-        ——–                        ——      Cmdlet Invoke-Item Microsoft.PowerShell.Management            Cmdlet Get-Date    Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility          [8]:   List all the supported/available functions/methods and properties/attributes of a PS cmdlet: [40]: get-command | get-member | ft Name, MemberType -auto | wc -l 64 [41]: List all the supported/available functions/methods of a PS cmdlet: [1]: get-command | get-member -Type method    TypeName: System.Management.Automation.AliasInfo Name        MemberType […]

Download source for v6 here, for updated versions refer to Citrix Developer Network. Once downloaded, installing the SDK is simply invoking the installer as local admin.  A successful installation looks like below: As shown above, the installer installs below snap-ins for Powershell: Citrix Common Commands Citrix XenApp server SDK Citrix Group Policy Management The exact snap-in names are as below: Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Loading Citrix.Common.Commands snapin… Loading Citrix.Common.GroupPolicy snapin… Loading Citrix.XenApp.Commands.Remoting module… To list all the Citrix commands: Get-CtxCommand To list the Citrix commands related to a specific topic: Get-CtxCommand *topic* To display […]